"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."

"It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them"

"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."

"I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief"

"Prosperity is full of friends."

"In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?"

"Friends show their love in times of trouble."

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

"A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends."

"People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board"

"A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?"

"To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind"

"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

"Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more."

"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."

"Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."

"When my friends are one-eyed, I look at their profile"

"I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda."

"I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect."

"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."

"In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents."

"...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes."

"...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us..."

"My treasure lies in my friends ."